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Galatians 5:2, you insist on giving God your pocket change to help pay for it, that might seem like a nice gesture, but it is actually a deep insult. By trying to pay, you are turning a loving gift into a business transaction, you are saying his gift was not sufficient, you are degrading his...

Galatians 5:2, this is one of the most frightening statements in the New Testament, how could doing something religious make Jesus Christ have no value? The Galatians thought they were just adding a little extra obedience to their faith, they believed in Jesus, but they also wanted to be serious...

Matthew 11:28, the modern world constantly tells you that the key to strength is absolute independence, you are taught from a young age to pull yourself up, to never ask for help and to carry your own weight, you believe that if you just push a little harder and work a little longer, you can...

Matthew 11:2, John was a powerful bold man of God, he was the one who baptized Jesus in the river and when he baptized Jesus, John saw the heavens literally open up, he saw the Holy Spirit descend like a dove, he heard the actual voice of God the Father speak from heaven. John had the ultimate...

Matthew 25:14-30, not talent versus no talent, not productivity versus laziness, trust versus suspicion, the first two servants looked at what the master gave them and saw an invitation, the third servant looked at the same master and saw a threat. Same master, same generosity, opposite...

Not talent versus no talent, not productivity versus laziness, trust versus suspicion, the first two servants looked at what the master gave them and saw an invitation, the third servant looked at the same master and saw a threat. Same master, same generosity, opposite conclusions and the...

Matthew 25:14-30, verses 24-25, that is the master, this servant claims to serve and look at the specific accusation, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you did not scatter seed, the servant is saying that the master profits from labor, he did not perform, he takes the harvest...

Matthew 22:14, the parable is not a lottery, it is a sequence, the garment is offered, the garment is declined, the Judas word falls, the muzzle lands, the binding follows, the direction reverses from inward to outward and at the end, one line, many invited, few refined, many heard the call, few...

Matthew 25:14-30, five talents earned, two talents earned, same words from the master’s mouth, the metric was not volume, it was trust, that reframes everything about the third servant. The third servant goes and digs a hole in ground and buries the talent, in the ancient world, burying...

Humanity had been deceived by false gods for generations, following religious systems and beliefs that could not bring truth or salvation, but each person must confront the reality of death and eternity and decide who God truly is. Standing right in front of the gates of hell at Caesarea...

This is heart breaking. We are watching Ezekiel 38-39 playing out now.

Matthew 25:14-30, some manuscripts connect the Greek word “eutheos,” meaning “immediately” to the first servant’s action, which would mean he did not sit on it, he moved, but it is worth pausing on what trading actually involved in 1st century Palestine, because it was not safe. The economy ran...

God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, this means that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are alive to God, in God’s presence. This doesn’t mean that they’ve already been resurrected, it means they are alive in God’s presence as they await the day when they will be bodily raised, their present...

God will do this work of judgment and justice, not because he’s a stern moralist, eager to pounce on and punish anybody who steps out of line, but because he is the good and wise creator, who longs to see his world reflecting and finally embodying his own glory. The Wilderness Tabernacle, was...

When the creator God finally does put things right, God doesn’t act at a distance, he doesn’t give instructions from a long way off while keeping his own hands clean. God’s reason for making this world in the first place was because he wanted and still wants and intends to make this world his...

Ezekiel is claiming that this isn’t a vision of God sitting still in heaven’s throne room while life on earth continues below, this is a vision of God’s throne room, mobile, dynamic, moving through space and time with purpose and destination, the wheels are functional technology of Divine...

When Paul contrasts walking according to the flesh with walking according to the spirit, Romans 8:4-8, he is describing two organizing principles of human life, two fundamental orientations that determine how a person interprets reality, makes decisions and defines what matters. The mind of the...